Twitter Is Now For The Birds

Is it fair that birds can't "tweet"?

Twitter uses a bird as it's logo and encourages people to send out "tweets." But what do birds have to do with the micro-blogging site? Absolutely nothing...until now.

A bird enthusiast from Latvia has set up a keyboard and a web cam on a windowsill in order to let birds "tweet" their tweets.

Voldemars Dudum of Latvia is a bird lover and writer at a bird magazine…and he never though it was fair that twitter was named after his feathered friends when they couldn't use it. So, he set up a keyboard linked to a Twitter account and set it up on a windowsill with a web cam. Now, (with the help of a little bird food and bacon fat) birds come come peck away at the keyboard and send tweets around the world.

Is it fair that the ones who gave Twitter its name never had a chance to use it themselves?
We at the Latvian weekly magazine "Ir" don't think so. That's why we welcome you to Birds on Twitter.
What you see [...] is being streamed live from Sarnate, a small village on the west coast of Latvia.
We put a layer of unsalted fat on a keyboard. Eating the fat helps the birds to survive the harsh February days and nights when the temperature can drop to 20C below zero.

Believe it or not, more than 3000 people are now following the "tweeting" birds.

What they type is nonsensical gibberish, but the humorous irony of finally allowing birds to "tweet" is not lost on me. And honestly, I'd rather read these "tweets" than most of the self-important drivel that comes out of a lot of celebrity Twitter accounts.

Here, you can follow the birds on Titter, or see the action on the web cam HERE.